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- Light Signs, the Work of Teófilo Rego for NeoluxPublication . PINTO, Miguel MoreiraThe subject of our paper is the work carried out by the Portuguese photographer Teófilo Rego (1913/1993), between the 1950s and the 1960s, for the manufacturing company of neon signs Neolux. Among the universes of the professional commission and the themes that, on his own initiative, explores in his personal work, the text addresses the images that may be considered as catalogue photography, reportage and architectural photography, and that remember us a time when, all over the world, the neon advertising was part of the urban landscape – from New York to Paris, Madrid, Lisbon and, in this case, Oporto. The article analyses the history, the type and the goals of the different advertising and light signage, the effect produced by their presence in city, and discusses the many images suggested and reminded by these photographs.
- Collages and photomontages in architectural representation. The photographic works of Teófilo RegoPublication . PIMENTEL, Jorge CunhaGraphically manipulated photographs were frequently used to illustrate the impact of the projected building on the existing cityscape or landscape, in particular, in those cases, where the projects had a monumental scale. We discouvered two sorts of documents at Teófilo Rego Archive: on the one hand, the collages and photomontages made by architects and photographed by Teófilo Rego; on the other hand, collages and photomontages made by Teófilo Rego at the commission of architects, a work whose depth seems to indicate the collaboration, a free, curious and imaginative spirit of research and the deepening of the formal and expressive hypothesis proportionated by the commission. In the second group are included the photographs of four projects of the International Competition for the monument to the Infante D. Henrique in Sagres, 1954/1957. The photomontages and collages contained in the specification and in the draft’s process submitted by João Andresen, and the photomontages of the projects by Nadir Afonso and Manuel da Silva Passos Junior must have been a form of project impact statement from their authors, and certainly represent a period of great creativity as concerns Teófilo Rego. All photomontages by Teófilo Rego are constructed images, the result of a rational being, but are also emotional. As his gaze approaches the models, the images become abstract, and deviate from a possible illusion of reality. Whereas the compositions on the territory and the monument demanded a certain expressive naturalism more than realism, it is the geometric abstraction of architectural form that prevails in the close-ups.
- Photography and Vernacular Architecture: the Portuguese ApproachPublication . CARDOSO, Alexandra; MAIA, Maria HelenaAt least, from the 1880s, it is possible to identify the presence of popular architecture in surveys, which were formally or informally held in Portugal. However, the most significant survey was the Survey on Portuguese Regional Architecture carried out by the Portuguese Architects’ Union in the second half of the 1950s. This work, published in 1961, used mainly photography as a source of registration of the rural dwellings during the fieldwork. A photography made by architects who have shaped in this work a gaze and an insight that has become decisive in the subsequent architectural production. This work deals with the Survey as photographic record and way to look at vernacular architecture.
- PHOTOGRAPHY & MODERN ARCHITECTURE. CONFERENCE PROCEEEDINGSPublication . AA.VV.Architecture and photography have maintained a close relation since the inception of the photographic field. Investigating the nature of this relations as well as identifying the fabric of their multidimensional dialogues constitutes an extremely rich field of research, one that has been gaining ever more relevance in actual agenda. Starting from CEAA’s currently unfolding research project – Photography, Modern Architecture and the 'School of Oporto', Interpretions around Teófilo Rego Archive (FAMEP) – this conference aims to understand possible configurations of the relations emerging from the fields of Architecture and Photography as well as from their respective histories and theories. It is therefore our propose to explore privileged relationships between photographers and architects, uses of photographic imagery and its associations with architecture, practices of architectural representation in their associations with photography and the appropriation of the photographic medium by the architect. Assemble a theoretical body of knowledge having for its foundations common arguments between architecture and photography – e.g. the cases of spatial issues or the use of light as a conceptual tool – as well as any case studies and different readings of architectonic and photographic experiments are also some of our goals.
- Modern Architecture in Teófilo Rego ArchivePublication . TREVISAN, AlexandraThe Project Photography and Modern Architecture and “School of Oporto”: interpretations on Teófilo Rego archive carried out for the last two years, has already accomplished the majority of the proposed goals, and created, in simultaneous, a theoretical corpus grounded on a consistent research that permits to share some reflections and conclusions within an enlarged international context. This paper intends to systematize the work carried out within this project, departing from three fundamental aspects: 1. The commercial archive of the photographer, where we gathered the images. This archive provided the main sources of theoretical development, namely in what concerns to it's articulation with Portuguese modern architecture and the “School of OPorto”. It was also this achive that enabled the construction of an online database. 2. The revelation of less known or even simply unknown architects, never referred works, and subjects incipiently treated, present in the Teófilo Rego archive. This documentation generated some new research line, who initially were not previewed. 3. The creation of alternative and grounded hypothesis for new approaches to the history of modern architecture produced in Portugal, departing from monographic approaches or transversal subjects in the chronological period in study, from 1940 to 1970.
- Shaping Vision: The photographic work by Aris KonstantinidisPublication . GONZALEZ CUBERO, JosefinaDuring his studies of architecture at The Technical University of Munich, Aris Konstantinidis (Άρης Κωνσταντινίδης; Athens, 1913-1993) comes in contact with the conceptions of Modernism. His early works reflect this affiliation, but soon he builds an architecture that does not renounce to the modern condition, and neither to establish a close relationship with tradition and genius loci of his country. Along with the practice of architecture, he develops a photographic activity, using photography as documentation and promotion of his architectural work. But he does not stop there, as he uses photography in all its possibilities. Throughout his life he uses it as a research and knowledge tool of his environment, and as a construction of the camera as well, I, e, as art of looking. This paper studies the characteristics of Konstantinidis pictures about the Greek landscape and the vernacular architecture in his two books entitled Elements for Self- Knowledge. Towards A True Architecture (Στοιχεία αυτογνωσίας. Για μιαν αληθινή αρχιτεκτονική, 1975) and God-Built (Θεόκτιστα, 1992), and his final presentation in the design of books.
- PHOTOGRAPHY & MODERN ARCHITECTURE. BOOK OF ABSTRACTSPublication . AA.VV.Abstracts and bios of the international Conference Photography & Modern Architecture
- Mediating and Materializing / Perceiving and Participating: an exhibition script on Photography and ArchitecturePublication . MATEUS, Joana; AZEVEDO, InêsIt is up to the Educational Service (ES) of the Casa da Imagem Museum (MCI) to conceive a final exhibition of the research project Photography, Modern Architecture and the "Porto School": Interpretations of the Teófilo Rego Archive (FAMEP) (Fotografia, Arquitectura Moderna e a «Escola do Porto»: Interpretações em torno do Arquivo Teófilo Rego (FAMEP)). The elements to consider for the creation of this exhibition include: Teófilo Rego’s photographs, the theoretical production developed within this project, the public and the MCI’s structural guidelines. Following the MCI’s guidelines, which require the construction of a specific relationship between the public and the image field – a relationship of rendezvous, participation and approximation –, the ES is responsible for the creation of an exhibitory structure that accomplishes two functions: on one hand, to reflect the scientific scope of the project according to the theoretical interpretations that have been produced by its research team; and on the other hand, to mediate between those contents and the visiting public, through exhibitory objects that simultaneously entail the issue of seeing. With this presentation, the ES aims to reflect on its role as a mediator, defining how mediation restricts the exhibitory script, how it materializes into an object and how it is made available to the public. We thus identify as fields of mediation / materialization, firstly, photographs: their place within the research project and the way in which they will be revealed in the exhibition. Secondly, the researchers’ theoretical production: the selection of the photographs to be shown and the construction of the scenographic arguments that compose and contextualize those same photographs. These arguments seek to understand the relationships between the genesis and the final photographic product, as well as the place of the photographer within the History of Photography in Portugal. Finally, the public: perception – the visualization of a set of photographs and visual essays, the presence of the body within a scenographic representation – and the participation – constructing new images and contents.
- Otimização da central térmica de um navio fluvial de passageirosPublication . Barreto, João Miguel Lopes de Brito Saraiva; Nogueira, Manuel Duarte Dias MendesOtimização energética entre sistemas de produção térmica e de consumo térmico. Dotar de bases para reequacionamento de equipamentos mesmo ao nível da propulsão e de geração de energia elétrica. Fundamentação Teórica – rendimentos, potências versus ponto máximo de rendimento, simulação dinâmica, etc. Descrição geral do navio e seus sistemas sob análise em particular. Sistemas ensaiados numa ótica de produção e consumo térmico e energético – motores principais, motores auxiliares (geradores), caldeira na produção AQS e AVAC, aquecimentos via resistências elétricas, sistema de Produção de Água Refrigerada. Metodologia dos Ensaios – Descrição de cada método de aquisição de dados. Descrição do método da simulação dinâmica. Descrição dos equipamentos de instrumentação utilizados. Interpretação de Resultados Descrição de soluções alternativas tendo como base os resultados obtidos.
- Estudo do fenómeno da pirataria e dos assaltos armados aos navios na zona da África Ocidental (no quadriénio de 2010/2013 - projeção considerando ações de mitigação)Publication . Tenazinha, Alexandre Bila; Oliveira, Joaquim Henrique Almeida deO fenómeno da pirataria e dos assaltos armados aos navios, na África Ocidental, tem vindo a desenvolver-se nos últimos tempos e na sua origem encontram-se a elevada taxa de desemprego e a pobreza devido à má governação, especialmente em comunidades ribeirinhas. Segundo os dados estatísticos, verificou-se que a Nigéria é o país mais afetado pelos ataques, na zona da África Ocidental, entre outros crimes marítimos, muito por culpa da pobreza e conflitos locais. Em alguns países, Benin e Camarões, a situação melhorou em 2013 não tendo havido quaisquer ataques, em outros países mantem-se alguma atividade como o Togo e a Costa de Marfim. Finalmente, comparando a situação histórica desde 2010 a 2013 conclui-se que é imprescindível que medidas sejam tomadas no combate à pirataria e assaltos armados para garantir que a criminalidade não evolua e aumente de uma forma incontrolável. A aposta na promoção e preservação da segurança marítima, desempenharam um papel fundamental na resposta às necessidades dos Estados Membros do Golfo da Guiné, que para atingir os resultados pretendidos, deveriam desenvolver uma estratégia marítima integrada abrangente de modo a enfrentar as ameaças e desafios que surjam à região. Analisando as ações tomadas pelos Estados Membros do Golfo da Guiné verificou-se que estes seguiram uma mistura de métodos, tais como medidas de autoproteção das Boas Práticas de Gestão (BMP), segurança marítima privada, desenvolvimento de dispositivos, aumento e sustentação da presença de patrulhas navais internacionais, estabelecimento de um código de conduta assim como a criação de comunidades, um fundo de apoio por parte dos responsáveis externos pelas políticas e uma rede de funcionamento de guarda costeira integrada. Há também a necessidade de ter em atenção, além do mar, os problemas terrestres, onde as reais ameaças do mar, na verdade têm origem. A luta contra a corrupção deve ser uma prioridade de topo, tendo em conta que esta leva à perda de recursos que poderiam ser usados para melhorar o desenvolvimento humano, prestar serviços sociais e reforçar as capacidades das forças de segurança no combate a pirataria. Após este estudo sugere-se uma nova investigação para análise de como serão implementadas novas medidas por parte dos Estados Membros e parceiros internacionais no combate à pirataria e assaltos armados contra os navios, e qual o seu efeito nestas economias.